In his first three seasons, he has led the Tigers to a 75-29 record, winning the Conference USA tournament in 2011 and both the conference's regular season championship and tournament title this past season.

With a super-solid returning squad plus another stellar recruiting class, Pastner is likely to notch his 100th career win by next March.

Gary Waters (Cleveland State)

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Gary Waters is another coach who is closing in on 300 career wins.

Waters brings a 293-217 record into 2012-13.

In six seasons at Cleveland State, he has notched a 122-82 record, winning the Horizon League (HL) Coach of the Year award in 2008, winning the HL Tournament Championship in 2009 and the Regular Season Championship in 2011.

The Vikings have made it to the postseason in four of six seasons under Waters.

John Beilein (Michigan)

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Even though John Beilein and Kevin Stallings have the exact same number of Division I head coaching victories (384), it's a good bet that the Michigan coach will get their before the Vandy head man does.

Michigan is loaded. Vandy is reloading. 'Nuff said.

Beilein (384-252) was the head coach at the junior college and small college level for 13 years before scoring his first Division I job at Canisius (89-62).

He moved on to Richmond (100-53) and West Virginia (104-60) before settling in Ann Arbor at Michigan (91-77).

With tons of talent returning and a monster recruiting class arriving, Beilein and the Wolverines should cruise in 2012-13.

Jim Boeheim (Syracuse)

Jim Boeheim is a unique individual, in that he has been a one-stop coach.

He played college hoops at Syracuse. He was an assistant at Syracuse. And, then, he was promoted to the head coaching position at Syracuse in 1978.

Unless something completely unexpected happens between now and the 2012-13 season, Boeheim will move into the No. 2 slot in the college basketball coaches' all-time wins list before Christmas.

He has an 890-304 record as the Syracuse head coach, which puts him only nine games behind Bob Knight.

On his watch, the Orange have made 29 NCAA tournament appearances, gone to the Final Four three times (1987, 1996 and 2003) and won it all in 2003.

Syracuse was one of the original members of the Big East. Under Boeheim, they have won 11 regular season conference championships and five tournament championships.

He is only 37 wins behind Coach K. But, unless something happens to Mike Krzyzewski, he is not retiring anytime soon, and I think he will make sure that he does not let his legacy as the college basketball coach with the most wins slip away.